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Delivery failure notice - Mail Error can be scam
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Stephanie Wloch
Stephanie Wloch  Identity Verified
Германія
Local time: 05:07
Член (ад 2003)
May 6, 2005

Maybe my headline is not correct.

But lately I've got suspicious mails for the first time.
My provider has very efficient spam+virusfilters. And only now and then I found something obviously spammy in the special spambox.

Last days I receive suspicious mails
with subjects that almost make you click automatically like
- Delivery_failure_notice
- Faulty_mail delivery
- Mail delivery_failed
- Mail Error

I can read the mail s... See more
Maybe my headline is not correct.

But lately I've got suspicious mails for the first time.
My provider has very efficient spam+virusfilters. And only now and then I found something obviously spammy in the special spambox.

Last days I receive suspicious mails
with subjects that almost make you click automatically like
- Delivery_failure_notice
- Faulty_mail delivery
- Mail delivery_failed
- Mail Error

I can read the mail safely because of webmail
and of course do not download anything suspicious.
But I did not know that they use these tricky subjects. ▲ Collapse
 
tectranslate ITS GmbH
tectranslate ITS GmbH
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Old Trick May 6, 2005

Yeah, that one's old. We've been getting hundreds of these over the last year or so.

Regards,
Benjamin
 
Kevin Fulton
Kevin Fulton  Identity Verified
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It's also possible that someone spoofed your e-mail address May 6, 2005

I get these messages from time to time. Some spammer was using my e-mail address as a return address, and undeliverable mail was returned to me. I even once got spam with my own e-mail address as the return address.

Eventually this will stop, for a while at least.
Kevin
 
Trudy Peters
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I'm glad I'm not the only one! May 6, 2005

I, too, have received dozens of these over the past week or so. (None today so far. Maybe it has stopped.) They are all of identical size (73K), all have attachments and are from addresses that are familiar (ProZ, ATA, etc.) but with an extra word added.

Trudy
 
davidgreen
davidgreen
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these commonly contain viruses as well May 6, 2005

I get them from time to time...the emails, not the viruses
 
Aisha Maniar
Aisha Maniar  Identity Verified
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арабская → англійская
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sober.s, sober.p, sober.o, etc. worm May 6, 2005

I'm not the first to mention this new worm that's making the rounds as an email attachment (http://www.proz.com/topic/31967) but it may be the cause of your woes. I've received it as an attachment a few times to familiar-looking email addresses. The following gives good information about it and it is defin... See more
I'm not the first to mention this new worm that's making the rounds as an email attachment (http://www.proz.com/topic/31967) but it may be the cause of your woes. I've received it as an attachment a few times to familiar-looking email addresses. The following gives good information about it and it is definitely one to look out for at the moment:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Have a good weekend,
Aisha ▲ Collapse
 


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